How much support is there for the Mumps environment on OS X? A search of the Apple Support site for 'Mumps' returns no results, yet an awful lot of these old NHS apps are written in Mumps. I'm sure that they can be made to work in OS X, or can be accessed from an OS X machine, but my guess would be that this would be a new area. Whereas Windows PCs are well-supplied with the relevant terminal emulators, and crucially the local techies are very familiar with that environment.
I know a bit about this because my wife works for a health service software provider. She was for about 10 years a Mumps programmer, delivering patient admin systems in that environment, plus loads of other add-ons, eg bed management & theatre management. If the customers' Mumps environment doesn't work, or isn't accessible from the desktop machines, then basically the relevant hospitals just close down....
I'm not saying that *in principle* a Windows infrastructure is the best. If you were starting from scratch then the answer would very probably be different. But in the present situation, sticking with the MS environment is probably the least risky.
Tom
On 5 Nov 2004, at 08:20, Susan Platter wrote:
Typical Blairist policy - hop into bed with the largest commercial enterprise that looks your way, no matter how incompetent or unsuitable. I wonder what they got in return?
Regards
Susan
On 4 Nov, 2004, at 23:38, RP McKay wrote:
Hi everyone,
I have just read with disbelief that MS has won a contract to supply the NHS
in the UK with 900,000 software licences including special GUI interfaces
and versions of office and Word !
Where was Apple? I mean surely 900,000 licenses would be worth any switch
campaign for a single country...
Oh, well, whatever anyone couldn't find out about me from the net before
will now at least be able to hack my medical records easily enough...:-)
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